The bench journal

The guides hold what the workshop is sure of; the journal holds what it is finding out. Room experiments, mic placement trials, and the ten-minute voice-memo tests behind every claim — written up as they happen, with the physics-first rule intact: if your own ears can't confirm it in a day, it doesn't graduate to a guide.

On the bench now: the moving-blanket experiment, measured honestly · three desk positions in the same room, one voice memo each · which cheap acoustic panels earned wall space.

Start with why your room echoes — the journal builds on it constantly.